The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)

To me, this movie is perfection.

How sad is this?

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The acting in this movie is really good.

There are so many terrible things about this movie that I might not get to them all but I will try.First of all, the title doesn't make any sense.They were normal humans who never stopped living, they just had acid thrown in their faces.But I've come to expect these old movies to lie in the title so I shouldn't be surprised.So it's about some "teens" and some dancers.Of course the teens are all well over forty.The main teen even sports a comb over that would embarrass a seventy year old.Even though he looks elderly, they try hard to make us believe he's a bad boy.He refuses to work or go to school but has no problem having a house and car.His best friend, and several others, have weird eastern European accents even though the movie clearly takes place in southern California.So old man teen becomes one of these zombies and stabs a bunch of dancers in the face while they were performing on stage.Then he just goes home and goes to bed and the cops have no leads.Weak.The worst part is that more than half of the movie is footage of empty carnival rides and people singing and dancing.They literally perform a dozen full songs that have absolutely nothing to do with the story.Did I mention they have some fool introducing all the acts and even when he holds his microphone at waist height, his voice is always the same volume?This could have been an OK thirty minute short but instead it's a terrible reminder of why people shouldn't try to make movies when they have no clue.Never see this.

It's dispiriting, though predictable, that such a fun and wonderfully bizarre film as Ray Dennis Steckler's cult classic has a rating of barely 2 stars out of 10. For ingenuity, for energy, for the sheer love of filmmaking on the lowest of budgets, this is a movie that you need to see. On the other hand, if you're the kind of viewer who calls Hitchcock the "Master of Suspense," if you think The Godfather is the reason why Blu-Ray was invented, if the length of Ripley's cigarette ash in Aliens is your idea of a trivia question, if you have ever queued up on line to see a Star Wars film -- in short, if you're an idiot, the kind of naive, pretentious ass who identifies himself as a "film buff" or "movie lover," and with the sadly misguided temerity to actually feel proud of the aforementioned attributes, then you will want to steer clear of this movie. For the rest of us with taste, who recognize small treasures when they cross our paths, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? is a must.

Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.The film was originally released by Fairway-International Pictures, Arch Hall, Sr.'s studio, who put it on a lower half of a double bill with one of his own pictures. Later, it was matched with "Beast of Yucca Flats", but working with Hall seems far more appropriate -- his films are notoriously trashy, and he had just worked with Steckler on "Wild Guitar" two years prior.There is really nothing redeemable about this film. Once it gets going, it is tolerably bad, but at least 75% seems to be nothing more than a showcase of women singing and dancing. This adds nothing to the plot. The sound is awful, and cuts out in some places, though even if it were fixed it may not do anything to improve the overall quality of this boring bomb.Had it not been for a catchy title, this film would have faded into obscurity fifty years ago already...

Like always, I'm willing to give a bad movie a chance and try not to be biased toward its, just because of its title and the poor rating it's receiving everywhere. However no, there really is no point in defending this movie or try to let it sound any good, since there are absolutely no redeeming qualities about this movie at all.It's being a very typically, bad looking and poorly sounding, '60's genre flick, made for 10 dollars and a bottle cap. The low budget can explain the movie its look and poor actors involved but it can't be an excuses for its lacking script.Stuff doesn't really ever make any sense and it's very hard to discover a main plot line in this mess of a movie. I really don't know what this movie was trying to tell, since its jumping all over the place and most stuff seems to happen very randomly, while some of the other stuff simple feels totally pointless and out of place, such as all of the dancing sequences.It's not focused on anything at all. Everything falls flat because of that. It's as if they had absolutely no idea what they were doing and purely based on its story alone already, there is no good reason why this movie exists. It should had never been made!Now, I'll give the movie that it clearly got putted together by a bunch of people who love classic horror. There clearly are some references to some of the '30's genre stuff and I also actually have no doubt about that some of Ray Dennis Steckler's other movies are far better ones, as long as they had a more decent enough script to work with but I'm probably being too kind and hopeful right now.The title of this movie might make you curious enough to watch it but trust me, you are far better off simply skipping it, even if you are into bad cinema.2/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/